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epicenter

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All trips are based out of Tulsa, Oklahoma, the epicenter of Tornado Alley, a swath of land that runs from central Texas to South Dakota and spawns many of the approximately 1,200 events each year.

Complicating matters, Texas is the nation’s epicenter for free-standing emergency rooms that are not connected to hospitals.

France on Wednesday reported 3,776 new infections, the largest daily increase in three months, while Spain—which has re-emerged as an epicenter of the pandemic on the continent—recorded 3,715 new cases, the most since April 23.

From Fortune

Miami-Dade and Broward Counties remain the pandemic’s epicenter in Florida, with 25 and 12 percent of the state’s total cases respectively.

Wuhan, once the epicenter of the virus, tested 10 million out of its roughly 11 million population in 19 days in May, using pop-up test sites to take throat swabs and an army of district government staff to contact residents.

From Ozy

Since then, Kisangani has been the epicenter of nearly every rebellion in the Congo.

It seemed that I, a staunch feminist, had found myself in the epicenter of macho culture.

“Expat bankers are definitely into the drugs/hooker scene, and Wan Chai is the very epicenter,” he told The Daily Beast.

The fact that these tensions are present even at the epicenter of the mindfulness world is telling.

Liberia, the epicenter of the epidemic, was relying on just 50 doctors to care for the entire nation before the outbreak occurred.

The ground motion near the epicenter was so violent that the tops of some trees were snapped off.

The location of an earthquake is commonly described by the geographic position of its epicenter and by its focal depth.

The Santa Cruz mountains suffered little damage from the seismic waves, even though they were close to the epicenter.

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On this page you'll find 18 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to epicenter, such as: command post, focal point, headquarters, hotbed, control center, and core.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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